New stuff to download from the Refill master
eXode is definately one of my favorite Refill guys I am equally thrilled every time something new pops out from this guy, and you wont be disapointed this time around either. I have had these two refills for a couple of weeks now and they have really come to use.
Make sure to download them for free at CombinatorHQ >>
Marketing pitch from HQs below:
We are so lucky to have not one… but two offerings at once from one of the more prominent programmers of the Reason Community… eXode! These two refills are both full of Thor patches ready to be added to your latest creation. We know you’ll get a lot out of these producitons.
Voltage Controlled Vol.3. is the latest free offering from eXode! A pack of 60 high quality patches programmed for Thor exclusively. This pack contains everything from hard solid basses to epic leads and soaring pads and the sounds range from old-school analogue style to new modern digital sonic wizardry!
The eXode Moog Tribute ReFill is a FREE ReFill that was made using only Thor. A total of 50 patches that were made to stay as true as possible in design to the original Model D minimoog! This ReFill was made as a tribute to Dr Bob Moog, the minimoog synth and the impact they had on the music world.
New Steelberry Clones album available at iTunes
Hi all
Two good announcements:
1. This blog has now passed 100.000 unique vistors 
2. A brand new Steelberry Clones album is out – Dig’it.
For those of you familiar with us would most liekly describe it as pure electro ambient synthpop. Make sure to check it out on iTunes and hopefully you will enjoy it enough to sponsor it.
Cheers Ola
Depeche Mode: Tour of the Universe
Tour Of The Universe
The dates for the European leg of Depeche Mode’s upcoming tour, “Tour of The Universe 2009,” are now available! Tune in now to the LiveNation web site to view the Depeche Mode press conference, broadcasting LIVE from Berlin! We are announcing some exciting news for the upcoming year. If you miss it, don’t worry. The LiveNation link above will also be hosting replays of the press conference starting within one hour of the original web broadcast! We will also have a “highlights” video clip on the site within a few days.
All dates and cities are here >>
New cool album from my old guru – Hideki Matsutaki
Also known as Logic System
「タンス・マトリックス」アルバム内容
収録曲
（※ ♪マーク付きの曲はページ下部で試聴できます）
1. Turning Point – Epilogue ( Comp : H.Matsutake )
2. Hypnotize ( lyrics : A.Muto , Comp : J.Irie )♪
3. Wandering On The Road ( Comp : A.Kosaka )
4. Digiphone ( Comp : K.Yamamoto)
5. 桜繚乱 ( lyrics : N.Oikawa , Comp : J.Irie )♪
6. THOUSAND KNIVES ( Comp : R.Sakamoto )♪
7. Sweet Memories ( lyrics : T.Matsumoto , Comp : M.Omura )
8. Nenkororo (MOSH) ( Comp : K.Hiro)
9. LEFT-HANDED WOMAN ( Comp : K. Omura )♪
10. LOVE ( lyrics : A.Muto , Comp : J.Irie )
11. Y.M.C.A. ( lyrics : Belolo Henri , Comp : Morali Jacques )♪
12. a long cool rain ( Comp : A.Kosaka )
13. Go!! Rise!! Cow!! ( Comp : K.Yamamoto )
14. Land of 1000 Dances ( lyrics & Comp : KENNER CHRIS )
15. Some Enchanted Evening ( lyrics :Hammerstein Oscar II , Comp : Rodgers Richard )
16. Turning Point – Prologue ( Comp : H.Matsutake )
Logic System is a musical project of Hideki Matsutake. Hideki started as an assistant for Isao Tomita in the 70’s and is well-known as the sequencer programmer and modular synthesizer operator for the Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), but he wasn’t a member of YMO. He worked on several of their albums and toured with his huge collection of synths. He also did sequencing work for numerous technopop albums for other artists, particularily in the early 80’s. In 1996 he performed in a big concert event organized by Isao Tomita and was also guest on Towa Tei albums. On his website is a huge number of MIDI files he released, with some of YMO’s original songs.
Kraftwerk: Interview with Ralf Hutter
Published by:NZHERALD.CO.NZ
Thank you for taking the time because I appreciate you are busy. You are playing in Krakow in a couple of days?
Yes, we are travelling there tomorrow and we are doing three dates and finishing a festival, we are some kind of ‘highlight’. I think it will be a beautiful occasion in an old industrial complex re-functioned for cultural events. So we travel tomorrow to set up.
Does it take Kraftwerk longer to set up than most bands given the amount of technology you have?
No, faster I think. Two or three hours. But it is more like checking cables and connections and having the computers working properly. It’s not so much a physical set-up.
Is it easier now to perform live than it was say 20 years ago because the technology is better?
Definitely, we’ve been very lucky that the technology developed in our direction. (laughs) This is what we envisaged in the late 70s when we worked with mostly analogue [equipment] of course. Then we composed the concept of [the album] Computer World coming out in 81 and we didn’t even have computers at that time. So that was more like a visionary album. We only got that technology, a small PC, around the tour of that album and we used one on stage just writing letters. Just typing them in, not even in synch or anything. Just live, and a guy putting that on screen.
Read the full interview here >>
Featured artist: Red Cell
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RED CELL was formed by Per and Jimmy during the winter of 2002/2003. They recorded their first demo, called “In Command”, in February 2003. The sound was very raw and was called “Industrial metal” by the local press. Per came up with the band name Red Cell who appears in the TV-series Nikita. The band name was actually one of the first thing Per and Jimmy decided before they started to compose melodies.
After that they hooked up with Stefan (who played guitar on their first demo) and Jens on synthesizer, and the sound quickly developed into a more electric type of music. After the “I am the way”- demo, they recorded their third demo “Related skin” who received good reviews and when they won the big Swedish demo-contest Quest For Fame, they had their first record contract. But they later turned down that deal. After that they played in most of the biggest and small cities in Sweden and also visited Copenhagen, Denmark, and they slowly began to plan to release an album. And in January 2005 they signed to Torny Gottberg and his Progress Productions, located in Gothenburg, Sweden.
On the 7th of September 2005 their debut album “Hybrid Society” was released and went up on 7th Place at the swedish official metal charts and 53rd place on national official charts. After that the guys did a tour in Sweden and during 2006 they played their first gig in Norway. That was also the first gig without Jens who decided to leave the band. In 2008 the band will release their first record in three years, named “Lead or Follow”.
Depeche Mode tour dates
Depeche Mode
According to several big fan sites, Depeche Mode will host a press conference at the Olympia Stadium in Berlin on October 6. The conference will reveal all details on the band’s upcoming tour in 2009. The band is also said to be working on their upcoming album together with Ben Hillier, but this isn’t confirmed from official channels.
More news on this as it becomes official.
Goldfrapp launch tour at New York Fashion Week
Free loops from Beatmatch :-)
After a short summer break www.beatmatch.info is returning with 4 new releases.
Over 100 new minimal, dubstep and electro loops in Wav and Aiff file formats
ready to use in your favorite music software.
This month beatmatch.info also launched new project called “BEAT+”.
Loops & samples series provided by invited producers.
All loops are available for free for non-commercial use at www.beatmatch.info “
New in promote your music here >> Underwires
Underwires
Listen here >> inyourroomagain Web site/MySpace : http://www.underwires.net / http://www.myspace.com/underwiresmusic Contact info: aurelien@underwires.net Music production tool/s: Max/MSP, Live and Logic.
Underwires song I would resemble with a lo-fi electro version of Beck, and I must say I like it a lot. It is a very slick production with very cool metallic sounds that dominates this song, paired with minimal beats. The only thing that disturbes me a little (listening very carefully) to the build up of the song is that there are very nice bass pads or similar that tends to go too much back in the production – you can barely hear them and they are definately worth listening to. I would suggest using a mastering suite to see if it is possible to reveal more of those bass bads in the final mix.
OK so that was music wise – very good work and I sure want to here more of this, but (and there is almost always a but) and that goes for the song. I like the Beck’ish voice you have but I think (at least in this song) that you sound too much like you’re all in pain, and surely Beck does that too, but I would prefer trying to go a bit more on high tones than the low ones especially in the refrain/chorus section, perhaps also add some effects to it; i.e. reverb or similar, but that’s me and my subjective point of view.
Conclusion, a positive experience although I would work more on the vocals going forward, which unfortunately is the toughest part (and I can only speak for myself here – I’ve had the same problem for years, hehe
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